Thursday, March 29, 2012

Paul Ryan: Doubling Student Loan Interest Rates

Correction on this photo. He used Social Security benefits to pay for college. My bad.

Paul Ryan has credited
novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand as the reason he got into public service.

Mike Wallace: “You
are out to destroy almost every edifice of the contemporary American way of
life, our Judeo-Christian religion, our modified government regulated
capitalism, our rule by majority will. Other reviews have said you scorn
churches and the concept of God. Are these accurate criticisms?”

The 400
Richest Americans Are Now Richer Than the Bottom 50 Percent Combined. Yes, 400
people have more money than 155 million Americans combined.

.0000035% of the population have more money than 155 million Americans combined.

400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined -PolitiFact.com

The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth --
What's It Going to Take to Get It Back? -Read more

The
400 richest Americans used to pay 30% of
their income on the average to Uncle Sam. Today, they pay 18% on the average.
The main reason for the drop in their tax rate of some 40% is the tax cuts by
George Bush and 100% republican control in 2003, taking the rate paid on dividends and capital gains down
to 15%. Mitt Romney pays 13%.

Shockingly, the plan to raise the debt ceiling or lower it collects nothing
from the wealthiest Americans to reduce our budget deficit. The Republican right
wing holds the Obama White House hostage. It’s a sad day for the principle of
sharing the pain equitably. Republicans only demand we take more from the
needy, the elderly, schools, fire fighters, teachers, lay off public
employees…

This mess would not be nearly as bad had we had all those taxes coming in over
the last 10 years.

He's
proposed cutting Medicare now for our elderly American citizens. Most
of whom have paid into the system for most of their lives. Why? So he
and his republican band of traitors can protect the Bush tax cuts for
the top few percent.

Pell
Grants For Poor Students Lose $200 Billion In Ryan Budget

More than 1 million
students would lose Pell grants entirely over the next 10 years under Rep. Paul
Ryan's budget, according to an analysis that the national reform organization
Education Trust provided to -The Huffington Post.

Rush Limbaugh – “The
brilliant writer and novelist, Ayn Rand, has written about this. Let me give
you a couple quotes from Ayn Rand on this.”

Justice Clarence Thomas –
“”I tend really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.”

Ryan's
father died when Paul was only 16. Using the Social Security survivors benefits
he received until his 18th birthday, he paid for his education at Miami
University in Ohio, where he completed a bachelor's degree in economics and
political science in 1992.

After speaking at
the 2011 Faith and Freedom Conference, Paul Ryan refuses to answer why he based
his budget on the extreme ideology of Ayn Rand and not Biblical principles of
economic justice then runs away from the Bible offered to him by the 7000 members
of Faithful America who signed a petition asking the same question.